Having my nightly smoke, it's a nice quiet night, a slight breeze stirs the leaves of the trees, it's dark.

I'm scrolling through the stern forum looking through the threads when I see movement on the ground in front of me.

I look over and there's a huge skunk not a foot in front of me, coming straight at me, oblivious to me.

I stood still as I could. All of a sudden this loud stupid fucking alert goes off on my phone, almost causing me to have a heart attack.

I jump a tad just as the skunk notices me. I thought for sure he was going to spray me.

But he bolted away at top speed, never considered it. I think it was past that point. It was a fight or flight instinct, and he flew away.

Thank the Gods.

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From my experience, skunks have always chose to run off rather than spray. Sometimes if I was a little too close they would raise their tail as a warning and as soon as I stopped and slowly backed away they would scamper off.